Gardner B. Semet

Mr. Gardner B.
Semet is Executive Vice President at Amalgamated Bank.
Prior to joining Amalgamated October 2010, Mr. Semet worked since 1992 as a senior commercial real estate executive at M&T Bank in New York City.
During his years at the bank, he closed loans with a cumulative value of more than $3 billion.
The loans, ranging in size from $300,000 to $120,000,000, were used for permanent financing of properties or to acquire or renovate real estate in the New York Metropolitan area, as well as California, Maryland, Florida and Ohio.
He arranged financing for individual and groups of properties that included multi-family buildings, cooperative underlying mortgages, bulk cooperative and condominium apartments, mixed-use properties, office buildings, and shopping centers as well as industrial and mini-storage facilities.
Mr. Semet earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University and he received an M.B.A.
from the Columbia Business School.
He also received a diploma in Real Estate Investment and Analysis from New York University's Real Estate Institute.
His community ser vice activities include serving as a Board Member on the New York Advisory Council for Youth about Business.
The organization is non-profit financial literacy education program conducted at Columbia University for high school students who attend a summer business camp that teaches teens about mergers and acquisitions.